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#1 2018-08-02 15:50:59
- toxeia
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Appear to have two running jobs at once
Using the cron to run a job at 0430 UTC. Checked the ESXi cron to be sure there's no doubling, but it's just the one job like in the XSIbackup cron. I receive one email stating errors in the transfer, then another email about an hour later repeating the same error. The job is running OneDiff, hot, on 3 VMs. When looking at the log, I see that it's actually connecting to the SMTP server twice. The first time it's only completed the first VM, then it performs the backup for the 2nd and 3rd before sending another email with the same error. When checking the log, I see some lines are repeated as well.
Example from the log, just from the start of the job:
2018-08-02T00:30:04| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-08-02T00:30:04| ###############################################################################
2018-08-02T00:30:04| XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.0.2: new execution request
2018-08-02T00:30:04| ###############################################################################
2018-08-02T00:30:04|
2018-08-02T00:30:04| ###############################################################################
2018-08-02T00:30:04| XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.0.2: new execution request
2018-08-02T00:30:04| ###############################################################################
2018-08-02T00:30:04|
2018-08-02T00:30:04| NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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2018-08-02T00:30:04| NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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XSIBackup PID: 4409260 HPESXi.hba.msft
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:30:04 +0000 IPv4: 192.168.2.2/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253 (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id: 001 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz
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2018-08-02T00:30:16| Backup description: HBEsxi
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2018-08-02T00:30:16| Message: crontab is installed for user root
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2018-08-02T00:30:17| ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
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2018-08-02T00:30:17| Backup user is: root
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2018-08-02T00:30:17| Backup program is: onediff
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2018-08-02T00:30:17| Service OpenSSH ready at server 10.10.10.2:22
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2018-08-02T00:30:17| Info: remote XSIBACKUP-PRO install dir has been set by means of the --remote-xsipath argument
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2018-08-02T00:30:18| Remote xsi path set to: /vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir (filesystem: VMFS-6)
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XSIBackup PID: 4409264 HPESXi.hba.msft
Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:30:04 +0000 IPv4: 192.168.2.2/255.255.255.0
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253 (c) Rsync 3.1.0 as opt. dependency
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Backup Id: 001 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz
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2018-08-02T00:30:19| Backup description: HBEsxi
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2018-08-02T00:30:19| Message: crontab is installed for user root
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2018-08-02T00:30:19| Remote ESXi version is 6.5.0
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2018-08-02T00:30:19| Mirroring to server 10.10.10.2 port 22
2018-08-02T00:30:19| Checking Rsync exists on the other side...
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| ADVICE: no SSD disks, please consider adding an SSD cache disk to improve performance
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| Backup user is: root
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| Backup program is: onediff
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| (c) Rsync (samba.org) found at [ 10.10.10.2:22:/vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir/bin/xsibackup-rs... ]
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| Service OpenSSH ready at server 10.10.10.2:22
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2018-08-02T00:30:20| Info: remote XSIBACKUP-PRO install dir has been set by means of the --remote-xsipath argument
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2018-08-02T00:30:21| Remote xsi path set to: /vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir (filesystem: VMFS-6)
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2018-08-02T00:30:21| (c) XSIDiff found at [ 10.10.10.2:22:/vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir/bin/xsidiff... ]
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2018-08-02T00:30:21| Getting list of all VMs...
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2018-08-02T00:30:21| 6 HBSQL [10kSASRaid5] HBSQL/HBSQL.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:22| 7 HBAD [10kSASRaid5] HBAD/HBAD.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:22| Remote ESXi version is 6.5.0
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2018-08-02T00:30:22| Mirroring to server 10.10.10.2 port 22
2018-08-02T00:30:22| Checking Rsync exists on the other side...
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2018-08-02T00:30:23| 8 Spiceworks [10kSASRaid5] Spiceworks/Spiceworks.vmx windows9_64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:23| (c) Rsync (samba.org) found at [ 10.10.10.2:22:/vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir/bin/xsibackup-rs... ]
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2018-08-02T00:30:23| VMs to backup:
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2018-08-02T00:30:23| 6 HBSQL [10kSASRaid5] HBSQL/HBSQL.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:24| (c) XSIDiff found at [ 10.10.10.2:22:/vmfs/volumes/WDBlackR5/xsi-dir/bin/xsidiff... ]
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2018-08-02T00:30:24| Getting list of all VMs...
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2018-08-02T00:30:24| 6 HBSQL [10kSASRaid5] HBSQL/HBSQL.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:25| 7 HBAD [10kSASRaid5] HBAD/HBAD.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:25| 8 Spiceworks [10kSASRaid5] Spiceworks/Spiceworks.vmx windows9_64Guest vmx-13
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2018-08-02T00:30:26| VMs to backup:
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2018-08-02T00:30:26| 6 HBSQL [10kSASRaid5] HBSQL/HBSQL.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:26| 7 HBAD [10kSASRaid5] HBAD/HBAD.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:29| 7 HBAD [10kSASRaid5] HBAD/HBAD.vmx windows9Server64Guest vmx-13
2018-08-02T00:30:29| 8 Spiceworks [10kSASRaid5] Spiceworks/Spiceworks.vmx windows9_64Guest vmx-13
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2018-08-02T00:30:31| 8 Spiceworks [10kSASRaid5] Spiceworks/Spiceworks.vmx windows9_64Guest vmx-13 You can see it gets the list of VMs and lists the ones ot be backed up twice - the second list of all VMs breaks up the list of VMs to be backed up.
Running the command manually doesn't create this doubling, nor does it lead to the errors. Likely my solution for now is just going to be using plink and windows scheduling to manage the backup schedule.
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#2 2018-08-03 09:47:09
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Re: Appear to have two running jobs at once
Things don't happen twice magically. XSIBackup prevents overlapping cron execution requests, so this has all the appeareance that you launched a job through the cron and another one manually. Or that you just duplicated some cron line.
Just kill all jobs using the GUI tools and try again.
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#3 2018-08-06 20:39:18
- toxeia
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Re: Appear to have two running jobs at once
I had previously killed all jobs before leaving the cron to take its course. After removing and reinstalling the cron again, it's still performing a double run.
My understanding is the lines in "(...)/xsi-dir/conf/root-crontab" is just inserted into the crontab located at "/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root" when ESXi boots. Is it possible there's another crontab somewhere that would be conflicting?
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#4 2020-10-04 10:35:32
- grudolf
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Re: Appear to have two running jobs at once
Same situation here, we have a VMware ESXi 6.7 server where the cron jobs are executed twice:
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099813]: crond: USER root pid 2471658 cmd /bin/hostd-probe.sh ++group=host/vim/vmvisor/hostd-probe/stats/sh
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099813]: crond: USER root pid 2471659 cmd /etc/cim/lenovo/refresh.sh
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099813]: crond: USER root pid 2471660 cmd /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-Free/jobs/001 > /dev/null 2>&1
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099698]: crond: USER root pid 2471664 cmd /bin/hostd-probe.sh ++group=host/vim/vmvisor/hostd-probe/stats/sh
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099698]: crond: USER root pid 2471665 cmd /etc/cim/lenovo/refresh.sh
2020-10-02T00:05:01Z crond[2099698]: crond: USER root pid 2471666 cmd /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-Free/jobs/001 > /dev/null 2>&1It's a Lenovo server and another instance of cron is executed as /bin/crond from /etc/init.d/179.lenovo-cronjob or /etc/cim/lenovo/register_ipp_schema:
# ps -c | grep cron
2099698 2099698 crond /bin/crond
2629914 2629914 busybox /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox crond
# ls -l /bin/crond
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 3 2018 /bin/crond -> /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busyboxOn server restart, the call to [em]cron-init[/em] in [em]/etc.rc.local.d/local.sh[/em] is needed to set up the contents of cron, but is also starts the busybox crond instance. Even if you kill the busybox crond process, [em]xsibackup --update-cron[/em] will restart it.
Lenovo's mechanism to start/restart cron is
CRONID=$(sed '1q' /var/run/crond.pid)
kill -9 "${CRONID}"
/bin/crondbut server seems to be reacting also to [em]echo root >/var/spool/cron/crontabs/cron.update[/em] as a signal for crontab changes. Perhaps one of those could be used instead?
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#5 2020-10-05 12:14:31
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Re: Appear to have two running jobs at once
If you are using some Lenovo build, switch to some VMWare official one, we don't support manufacturer builds, as they contain arbitrary changes with regards to VMWare's official build.
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#6 2021-05-24 12:24:15
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Re: Appear to have two running jobs at once
Please, note this thread corresponds to an old software edition - (c)XSIBackup Classic - which has been deprecated. Use our latest software edition: [b](c)XSIBackup-DC[/b] and refer to [url=https://33hops.com/xsibackup-dc-full-manual-home.html]its manual[/url] to [url=https://33hops.com/xsibackup-vmware-esxi-backup.html#prodchart]backup your (c)ESXi VMs[/url] as of 2021
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